They understand and share "the educational concern" which would justify maintaining the opening of schools after the All Saints holidays.
However, faced with the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, there is no question for teachers to agree to act "as if the virus did not exist", warns Claire Guéville, head of the high school sector for the Snes-FSU.
“A real health protocol must be put in place.
Since the start of September, in secondary school, what have we had: the mask and that's it.
We are far from the measures that existed in the month of June ", judges the union official who mentions a smaller workforce to limit the mixing, a sense of movement in the establishments, regular cleaning of the rooms, hydroalcoholic gel everywhere ..." All these rules strict rules that existed were swept away in September, ”she laments.
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For epidemiologist Antoine Flahault, we should not reopen colleges, high schools and universities at the start of the school year, but rather favor distance education.
And as regards primary schools, the latter recommends the wearing of masks among young students.
A device claimed for several months by the collective of doctors Stop-postillons and the association of families and teachers School and forgotten families.
The association has just written an open letter to the government calling for “100% distance education” for all school levels in the most affected regions, and an increase in the health protocol in others.
"If young children of the first degree are, as the health authorities say, slightly contaminated and contaminating, maintaining the opening of schools makes sense," said Stéphane Crochet, secretary general of the teaching union SE-Unsa .
"Everything is always done in a hurry"
What about wearing a mask for these students?
"Are they only able to wear it correctly?"
It should not be just a display measure, ”warns the manager who cites the non-mixing of groups as one of the solutions that can be considered.
Teens and young adults are of greater concern to the educational community.
“They live in conditions that can accelerate the spread of the virus: there are many of them in class, in the establishment, they take public transport… lists Stéphane Crochet.
Alternating measures, which would make it possible to teach half-groups, would be a means of ensuring pedagogical continuity and limiting mixing.
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"The least distance courses possible in any case, pleads Claire Guéville of Snes-FSU, except for vulnerable personnel", she specifies.
And the latter to denounce the lack of anticipation of the Ministry of National Education.
“Everything is always done in a hurry.
In Italy, a staff recruitment campaign has been carried out so that the classes are less overcrowded.
From July, I asked that the class group be reconstituted in high schools, that is to say coherent classes where students of the same specialties are grouped, always together, to avoid mixing.
But this is not the philosophy of the high school à la carte, which has just been put in place.
We must believe that this reform comes before the health crisis, ”considers, bitter, the person in charge.